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Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.
Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.
Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.
The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
If I have to convey some message to different parts of the state, then the state capital offers me the best platform.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.
We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.
Capital goes where it feels comfortable and warm, and if it's cold, it runs to a country which gives it better weather.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.
Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.
I view having celebrity as having capital, and I don't know a better way to spend that capital other then helping people.
In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital.
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.